Answer — Exercise 1
1.1 - Me and my languages·Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
Read questions 1-10. What do the words in bold mean? Check with other students or your teacher, the think about your answers to the questions.
Answer
- mother tongue → the first language that you learn as a child
- learning strategies → plans, activities and techniques that people use to help them learn
- foreign → from a country that is not your own
- native speakers → people who learnt a language as their first language when they were a baby
- slang → very informal language that uses new or rude words instead of more common words
- jargon → words / phrases used by people in the same profession which are difficult for others to understand
- fluency → the ability to speak / write a language very well without stopping frequently
- accuracy → the quality of being correct
- skill → an ability that needs to be learnt and practised, e.g, writing, playing the piano
- bilingual → the ability to speak two languages fluently